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Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

I just want to do something risque for my debut, purely because I didn't want to make an entrance being the pretty, sweet type that I've been seen as for the last 3 years.

I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't be fun. This shouldn't be comfortable. I'm not looking to make people feel unsafe, but I am looking to make people feel uncomfortable.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.